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Pte. John Charles Boon
British Army 99th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
(d.16th November 1916)
John Boon, only son of Henry and Margaret E Boon of Mount Pleasant House, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, served with the 99th Company, Machine Gun Corps Infantry. He was killed in action on 16th of November 1916 age 21 years during the Battle of The Somme and is buried in the Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery, Somme, France. He was a pupil of Bedford Modern School 1908-12, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com